MCZ Invertebrate Zoology OPH-5938

Amphiura dacunhae Mortensen, 1936

Syntype of Amphiura dacunhae

Date Collected:

1933-11-18

Atlantic Ocean: Atlantic, Southeast | St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Inaccessible Island

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IZ:OPH-5938 JSON-LD

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Current Identification
Amphiura dacunhae Mortensen, 1936 linked data icon
Animalia Echinodermata Ophiuroidea Ophiurida Amphiuridae
Determiner: Theodor Mortensen in 1936
Nature of ID: type ID

  • station number: 1187

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (dry) good in collection 1 History (3)
Remarks: partial arm; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2022-09-30
subsampled by = Nina Black   determined date=2022-09-30   determined by=Nina Black  
whole animal (dry) good in collection 1 History

Attribute Value Determination On
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Nina Black 2022-09-27

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  • Ocean:
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Ocean Region:
  • Atlantic, Southeast
  • Sovereign Nation:
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Inaccessible Island
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Inaccessible Island, Tristan da Cunha
  • Depth:
  • 65 fms
  • Georeference:
  • -37.401128°, -12.848559° (Error radius: Not Specified) By: Penny Benson on 2015-04-08 (Source: Google Earth)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Collected On:
  • 1933-11-18
  • Verbatim Date:
  • November 18, 1933
  • Collector:
  • RRS Discovery

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